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Senate probe catalogs brutality against detainees
CIA Torture Report Zu Werm
This undated file photo provided by U.S. Central Command shows Abu Zubaydah, date and location unknown. Zubaydah was the CIAs guinea pig. He was the first high-profile al-Qaida terror suspect captured after the Sept. 11 attacks and the first to vanish into the spy agencys secret prisons, the first subjected to grinding white noise and sleep deprivation tactics and the first to gasp under the simulated drowning of waterboarding. Zubaydahs stark ordeal became the CIAs blueprint for the brutal treatment of terror suspects, according to the Senate Intelligence Committees report released Tuesday. - photo by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United States brutalized scores of terror suspects with interrogation tactics that turned secret CIA prisons into chambers of suffering and did nothing to make America safer after the 9/11 attacks, Senate investigators concluded Tuesday. The Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report, years in the making, accused the CIA of misleading its political masters about what it was doing with its "black site" captives and deceiving the nation about the effectiveness of its techniques. The report was the first public accounting of tactics employed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and it described far harsher actions than had been widely known.
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